Re: Timeout and retry

Marcel Grunauer (marcel.grunauer@lovely.net)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 22:48:58 GMT


On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 13:12:47 PDT, you wrote:

>I am trying to extract data from a website with thousands of .htm files.=
 The=20
>data is stored in these .htm files
>
>My problem is, sometimes it waites forever to get a connection. How do I=
 set=20
>timeout settings for libwww and how do I make it RETRY after the =
timeout?

$ua =3D new LWP::UserAgent;=20
$ua->timeout($secs);

LWP::Simple can't do that.

Marcel